026|365 Dinner

Today was another long and busy day. There were several presentations in the morning, and then we spent the afternoon rehearsing and reworking the North America marketing and golf presnetations. The group met for an awesome dinner that night at Todd English's Blue Zoo in the Dolphin hotel. (Why did they name it the Dolphin - kinda dumb if you ask me.)

Anyway, the sea bass was fab, the wine delish and the company great. It was especially awesome that Sandy could come as she is usually so busy at these meetings that we don't get to hang out.

After dinner some of us headed over to JellyRolls for a few beers and bad music. It was really fun to spend time with Sandy and Julie when we could "let our hair down" and Chris and Shane are always a blast. We had a lot of laughs, but I didn't stay out late as Tuesday was the big day and I needed to have a decent night's rest.

023|365 Amazing Art

So, yes, I've been missing in action. It has been a crazy week - over 7 days I flew from NY to Orlando for Transitions Academy, and then on to Scottsdale AZ for the FBR Open PGA TOUR event, and then back to Tampa FL for activities around the Superbowl. I am 9 days behind and will spend a lot of the day today getting caught up.

Rewinding to last Friday, Shane and I got to Orlando and holed up in my room to work on Transitions' marketing and golf presentations. But the highlight of the day was when Shane and I went down to the dining room to join Connie at her grandson's first birthday party. Connie had commissioned a painting from Shane of her two grandson's and had asked him to present it to her daughter's family at Truman's birthday party.

To say Cheryl, Phil and the boys were surprised would be an understatement. Surprised, delighted, touched, impressed, and so on. Connie is such a loving Grandma and her commissioning this painting is another representation of that. And Shane is an amazing artist - he did a wonderful job of capturing the essence of the boys in a very modern way. Everyone loved the piece, and they loved meeting the artist too.